PEERS AND PEOPLE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 708, 6 January 1910, Page 5

PEERS AND PEOPLE.

WHAT WILL LIBERALS DO WITH LORDS?! MEND, END, OR BEND? By Telegraph-Prosa Asßociation-CopyriEh»

'",;,'■■'■•..'.V , .'-.' :!.;,:;• -London, January i. ;■.-. ■ ""The:Times,", discussing the,'future of the--House- of . Lordsj' 6ays ;.that' Mr; ' Ascjuith;has: definitely: disclaimed the policy: of Vending'•■.'it,: and. the■'■.party; .has- 'sufiK ciently iindicatedits objection to mending, .which''means.'ialteririg .arid, improving its ; oompbsition'...::; There-, .'remains, ;. r bending,. which..seems.,to-bei curtailing: its:, powers ■while leaving; its composition. alone.,. This': : iuriste"'consider: 'tho' worst; is chosen by'the Government; . - :

i/Sir'; 'William; Ansbn, M.P. ;; for .Oxford. .yhirersity.'rcpeafei'Lord: Itosebery's re-'quest.'-.'for'.; information',. : ; respecting'.. the' future of-_,the.;:House : :.,'.. ■ ■ ..."

•J Several . and . newspapers. are urging; Mr." Asquith. and Mr;- Balfour. to give ; information^ , ; ;v;' ; . : , '■'■j-t'.':VV.-bo ;addressed;l)y: peers ;this>Afeek/-i-/:.^/A;:

-' MRv-JOHN BURNS. AND-WOMAN' ■ j-;'i' : ::;'? : '':'';;;^STJI , ]?RAGM' ; '■''?;;;;, ;;:■-; ,:;: Lohdorij v i> : ;Mr.:^John;; Burns", Local -.GoVeriiment ;Board,|! Bpeak'ing.'.'at; ! Battersea, ; eip'ressed-. ..himself-;': in;.'favour, of vadult-. suffrage.';; He ■■■ declared . that. if: the';)reform -was; not'; embo'died ■. in '.-the : ■Liberat/programine .-'.for-l this'election,:-the ladies; ; we're; to.,blame. ! ; ■■..-'.'•■•;■';';

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